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experience will be the greater the longer a man lives,
and the more he is has been conversant in public business.

As to our Author, his plan when in its infancy
had already met, it seems, with some opposition from
those whose objections the Author he speaks of as being
"more fanciful than real".† † See Preface p.5 These objections, fanciful
as they were, (and perhaps chiefly for that very reason,) were
likely enough, to if circulated and insisted upon, to
take footing and excite a ferment among the people.
It was from these considerations probably that he
judged it advisable (and I think the wisdom of such
a precaution stands I think unimpeachable) to sound
the temper of that capricious body and feel his way
before him by experiment. Twas in this view only,
if I understand aright, that the establishment for
hard-labour on the Thames was originally set on foot. To have
begun at once and stocked the whole nation with
a vast establishment of Labour-houses, of which
perhaps neither the expence nor the regimen would
have been endured, would have been at any rate a
bold step, and to a judicious eye, viewing the occasion it
from the station in which our he view'd it,
probably an imprudent one.(a)

NOTE.

(a) The gradual establishment of Houses of industry as they are
called, for the employment of the Poor, has at different
times excited some commotions.

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Folio number	003a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.	Info in main headings field	preface
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39514
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